elections where fraud which is why this is a sin was robbery has decreased instead of cultivating its culture its words and language it brought forth a richness of nationalism. the soviet union's heritage where does russia stand today and moscow's empire our series starting november fifth. this is deja news live from berlin tensions fail as kenya gears up for a rerun of the presidential election opponents still not to talk test after

election officials say the votes would proceed as she do with the supreme court not an election had been or was for alleged irregularities we get the latest on going live to nairobi also coming up a german human rights organize a goes on trial in turkey today his case has become a flashpoint in already strained relations between berlin and on korea. and frank loesser steinmeyer becomes the fall is just one head of state to visit moscow in seventy as this is the russian government prepares to return a few good to the evangelists a neutral in charge. of a warm welcome to you i'm on the thought she we start the show with kenya where the supreme court has announced it could not show a last minute petition. delayed thursday's presidential election the chief justice

is not enough judges were present the announcement means tomorrow's vote will go ahead as shared the decision has triggered protests in a key so more an opposition stronghold people have taken to the streets many are saying they will boycott the presidential really. this vote comes after the supreme court knowledge results from all the selection due to irregularities since then dozens have been killed in election related violence i talked to did obvious catherine on one do in nairobi in just a moment but first her report from the capital. on my day or heroes day kenya celebrates those who fought for independence people from far and wide came last friday to nairobi's main park to listen to president hu kenyatta's address the event is usually filled with pomp and color with children getting the most out of the entertainment but this year and easiness hangs over

canyons including jameson gerard and his family. after the supreme court an old election was there's been a lot of tension but we pray to god that we'll have an election and have peace on and thereafter. you can use electoral commission has faced numerous challenges since the announcement on september first the chairman of the commission has not quite conceded that he's under siege and still insists the commission can deliver an election on the twenty sixth the main opposition party insists the commission must get its house in order before it hold an election opposition supporters have taken to the streets demanding reforms within the commission but government supporters like james say the electoral commission is already capable of organizing a repeat poll. that we're like drill commission should stay as it is and shouldn't

be changed it's independent and it will respect the democratic rights of kenyans i believe there will be voters in every polling station in the country remove the water so i think. as we approach the twenty sixth of october kenya remains a divided country on one hope you have a population that is willing to support incumbent president who kenya and his family party and the other half of the population that the board's made up of the right loading up now according to this part of the population they claim that income the president has a few of them from the government to veto. in two thousand and thirteen. an informal settlement in the capital is a perceived opposition stronghold supporters of right loading up this year's celebrations most stayed indoors mourning those killed opposition protests with no i cannot vote with an order from i cannot vote i voted last week amiably short

people and i watch i'm not voting because i like to do what i'm not into many of them everything that's happened and again i read my constitution i look at my confusion everywhere i go to them i don't have any to do but i want to understand what is there and i understand so i move on and i'm going to predict other people like my mother who didn't go to school who doesn't own the thumb in the can on television what. the canyon national human rights commission says police killed at least thirty three opposition supporters in protest during the election in august this number includes seven children there are fears men will die both sides stand their ground. and those who know it you know it goes back to you you're born into a tribal and right or more form i just mean you're born thinking the way appliance to politically even naturally grown into this political thinking and socialization

of of other people with their tribe and parties don't represent me. to insist the elections must go ahead and has ruled out dialogue with. the pool a heavy police presence is expected on voting day as kenya's future hangs in the balance. catherine wonder joins me now from the kenyan capital nairobi hi catherine first of all what is the situation like there on the eve of the presidential read on. well it's quite tense right now everyone is getting ready for tomorrow which in some people's opinion is that i get in but then we have people packing up things going to shop in supermarkets stocking up on food you have people going to churches to pray but then also at this very moment you have people gathering at the main park who park where they're expecting an

announcement from main opposition leader right loading any time from now so the situation right now is tense police had ruled out any gathering so we're expecting to see heavy police presence as well within the town we've also seen in various areas within western kenya that electoral commission officials haven't been able to set up yet given that it's just hours away to the vote the supreme court says it did not have enough judges to make a decision on whether to delay this vote on questions they're being asked whether the absence of these judges who were not there was engineered. there are questions being asked because it seems that it was orchestrated last night the deputy chief justice her driver was shot as he was making his way home and she was delayed in that she's been trying to sort that out and that was her excuse for not attending supreme court today we have two three other judges who

it's really weird how they are staying away from court one is sick so they haven't been able to form the quorum so it's too many people especially supporters of the opposition this seems very orchestrated so there's a lot of questions around that and at the same time the electoral commission is under pressure still to postpone the election even though we're just hours away we have the observer mission which had tried to talk to the electoral commission and now they're saying like the commonwealth observer mission has pulled out its observers from from this particular election citing security and we have the e.u. observers who have reduced the number of staff or the number of people participating in this election so that's the current situation and basically opposition leaders are loading gun has already said he's going to boycott this election really without his participation will this vote have any legitimacy at all

. that's a very big question because tomorrow in the morning when people go to the polling stations they will see right loading his name on the ballot so whether they choose to vote for him that's up to them. but then at the same time the fact that he withdrew even though he didn't do it formally according to the electoral commission even though he withdrew their people who are saying that at least six point seven million kenyans have been locked out of the vote because they want to boycott the vote until reforms are established within the electoral commission so the vote could go on and but then after that whoever wins the election after that their legitimacy will be called to question katherine on one do it in the night kenyan capital nairobi thank you very much for that. turning now to turkey where the trial has started for a german human rights activist arrested in istanbul in july british toward now is

one of eleven germans currently imprisoned in turkey now balances he's been wrongfully detained and has been strongly campaigning for his release he was arrested while at a workshop on digital security for other human rights activists in istanbul he's been tried along with members of amnesty international including the director of amnesty international in turkey now stored there stands accused of links to an armed terrorist group and of having a legibly links to the man allegedly behind last year's field called the islamic cleric for thriller girl and if convicted stored now faces up to fifteen years in jail his trials already putting strained relations between germany and turkey to the test the german foreign minister sigma gabriele has called the threat of a long prison sentence in comprehensible and acceptable joining me now for more on

the story is a join adult reason he's the director of amnesty international europe and central asia he is at the supreme court in istanbul welcome john now two members of turkey's amnesty international are also on trial you've been listening to proceedings of the court behind you what are your impressions. i think we have not been able to establish a line to turkey we'll leave it there and we'll try and talk to. want to our next story is the first trip by a german head of state to russia in seven years german president from the steinmeier is in moscow he's already taken part in a wreath laying ceremony at the war memorial and his itinerary includes a tour with russian president vladimir putin followed by a separate meetings with human rights activists. the german president will also attend an event to mark the handover of the st peter and paul cathedral in moscow

the russian government is officially returning it to the evangelical lutheran church of russia as part of festivities celebrating five hundred years since the reformation. an air of celebration at a normal sunday service the last one before this evangelical lutheran congregation in moscow officially gets its church back. lutherans are religious minority here in russia most in the community have german roots their ancestors came to russia centuries ago on the invitation of the czars who promised land and religious freedom but later the soviet government persecuted lutherans and seized church property including this cathedral the community led by archbishop to take power has been using it again since the fall of the soviet union but so far it has remained russian government property. with the courts here on a case like someone started living in your apartment and it's not yours anymore so

they let you turn up but the whole time you have the feeling it isn't your words and any pointer could end up in the government's hands or other hands it's ours that it feels like home again this is just. so. in the officially atheist soviet union many churches were repurposed from nine hundred thirty seven this cathedral was. as a movie theater and a film studio by then all lutheran churches across the country have been closed and many of their pastors arrested and shot. here at video cemetery in moscow long known as the city's german cemetery the scars of that persecution are still tangible many gravestones here were neglected and destroyed after the second world war the lutheran community struggled with the additional stigma of its german origins often associated with the nazi enemy. which. is the return of our church to some extent restored historical justice historical truth

but only partially i hope that this will just be the beginning of a new stage in the development of our country and our community strongly in the short circuit the number of churches that were destroyed the crime of course the fact that this cathedral is being returned that's good news. on the church belongs to the congregation it belongs to the people that come here and look after it so st peter's and paul's cathedral will be the first evangelical lutheran church to be given back to the congregation they hope it will set a precedent and that the russian state will return other churches as well. and returning now to turkey where the trial has told to for german activists could be destroyed now and other human rights activists including two from amnesty international at the courts there joining me now is john adult reason he's the director of amnesty international's europe and central asia section is standing outside the supreme court in istanbul know john two members of turkey's amnesty

international also been accused by the courts there of charges on charges of terrorism you listening to proceedings in the court behind you what were your impressions. but it was an extraordinary experience to sit there listening to this indictment being read out with all the pomp and ceremony or. of a courtroom judges listening to it taking this document seriously when this document is impossible to take seriously so for the fabrication and fulsome new endo is it it was a very strange experience to sit there with all the appearance of justice being done but none of the the reality of actually being so in that room and then being held in detention for months not doing this period had contact with colleagues and what to say about the conditions in which they are being kept. so the conditions are certainly far from optimal that they're far from optimal for those who have

preexisting medical conditions or accrue some whilst they are that that suddenly may be in the case for a number of the detainees and his remains a real issue but really the main thing is that you've got these ten human rights defenders and they stumble one more on this international in is made in the tension on the most absurd charges of organizing chaos of membership of terrorist organizations suspended investigations of of espionage we're talking about allegations that is so far fetched so far moved from from reality that it's not really human rights defenders that are on trial here today a tool it's the toughest justice system itself now why do you think that these eleven human rights activists the targeted. well i think it's doing a number of things and certainly from the point of view of the authorities this is helping to build a particular propaganda narrative it's helping to to blacken critics to discredit human rights organizations human rights defenders in the eyes of the public it's

much the same tactic has been used to silence journalists or discredit their opinions in the eyes of a broader broader public so i think it fits into into that pattern there number of commentators who would observe that there's an element of hostage taking in relation to to to foreign countries from turkey wants to extradite alleged colonists supporters a number of theories but the bottom line is this is a very somber indicator of the direction that turkey is heading in and the state of human rights in this country. joined up using a form amnesty international thank you very much for speaking to us from istanbul. let me bring you some other stories making news around the wild chinese president xi jinping has been confirmed for a second term as the country's leader she was selected as secretary general of the communist party's ruling council six other leaders were also named to the decision making body but a successor to she was not named

a clear break from tradition. in bangkok the five day feel with so many has started for king bhumibol on tens of thousands of mourners have filed into a historic quarter of thailand's capital to bid farewell to the monarch who was hugely revered his body has been a lying in state since he died last october at the age of eighty eight the american ban on all refugees has now ended after one hundred twenty days but nationals from eleven countries believed to pose a higher risk to the united states will face even tougher scrutiny officials have not named these countries but say people will be judged on a case to case basis. you're watching the news coming up ahead we turn to german cup action where dortmund hope to date with a lower league opposition would help them to recover their form.

but first monica joins me for businesses and live thousands i have presented record results monica great i mean i love to answer one can say it's not just the planes that are sky high profits are as well germany's largest airline is celebrating the best earnings period in company history we look at the number of towns that has boosted its revenues by over twelve percent to around twenty seven billion euros that's how they drive earnings to new heights pretax profits totaled two point six billion euros over the last nine months now live tons of subsidiary airlines are helping fuel that growth and they've boosted their overall passenger capacity but over ten percent and are keeping many of those extra seats filled and loved ones a can of course use that extra cash of course because it's busy buying up a failing rivals. and for some market reaction let's bring in the vice potter now at the frankfurt stock exchange and what are investors there your what are

investors. the radio act to the fantastic results there. by then off the results posted by love tongues out the shares have actually reach a seven team year high today and that's because they also lifted their outlook for the a dividend and the dividend could actually be higher than previously expected and that's of course a very positive sign for shareholders but also the expansion strategy is going down well with them because it means that they have taken on the fight against other low cost carriers such as rhino easyjet who actually dominated are dominating the european market of course another big big topic which is just around the corner this week specially for the financial world within the euro zone is tomorrow's european central bank a meeting do you see anything that we should be excited about. gets the excited most exciting meeting of this year from the c b they will and way of the big

tapering plan meaning the big plan how they gonna get out of the massive asset purchases which they are currently doing so everything is expected from a drug when it comes to such a plan for next year and it could well shake the markets because of course we see a record equity markets bond markets distorted all these small kids hinge on the c.b.s. doing in case we get a massive that the draw it's xorn or ordinary stimulus a little bit more and earlier than investors are expecting you could really see movers in the euro dollar rate but also on the equity markets so watch out that space tomorrow will be super interesting it did it sounds like an extremely curious and interesting day tomorrow we'll catch up with you then again on the device back in frankfurt thank you so much. well we were also curious to find out what you

member states have to say about life or sate. they failed to reach an agreement on this particular issue of the european license for this herbicide runs out in december its use is highly controversial some studies say the chemical could cause cancer while others insist it is totally safe business interests play a role too europe has been debating the use of life is that for more than two years here's a look at what's at stake. it's the most commonly used herbicide in the world. in europe farmer sprague life aside on around half of fields used to raise commercial crops many critics demand a ban on blight to cite. activists began applying pressure in brussels at the beginning of the week. the international agency for research on cancer of the world health organization has found that life as it causes cancer in animals and probably

also in humans means that there's urgent need for action studies don't agree on where the glaive aside as a long term cancer risk or not the world health organization has said it could pose a danger the e.u.'s food safety authority has proclaimed the chemicals harmless but has also been accused of basing that opinion on studies sponsored by clive a site manufacturer of monsanto grains in the european parliament say that's not acceptable that we need to look at independent studies not just ones carried out by the industry and then we have to finally end this thing with life aside there is a standard farming methods that work fine without the heavy use of chemicals. by standard farming methods sling means organic agriculture but many farmers say those methods are too expensive and think it's enough to only ban the use of herbicide directly before the harvest conservative m.e.p. is disagree with the greens but blame member states for not reaching a decision i find it very regrettable that for more than two years the member

states don't have a clear position they are always postponing there's no majority for any position. if not extended the license to use clive for site in the european union will expire on december the fifteenth. for more on this issue let's cross over to our correspondent catherine martins also sent us this report catherine why didn't we see a decision today. because there is no common ground among the member states regarding glyphosate important member states like france and italy for example they are opposed there are against life aside and other important states like germany they abstained from voting which makes a finding of a qualified majority almost impossible so the conclusion off today is to postpone the meeting one more time we see it is a really difficult issue and member states don't want to touch this hot potato and

they rather prosper on it then during a vote which is difficult to deal with at home so what's this the result of then or rather lack of a result nein for the use of glyphosate in europe well in any case life aside will be on european fields till the end of the year because this is the valid current license the question beyond that deadline is what kind of new deal we will agree on and this is opt into the european commission now whether they take over the decision now because the member states are failing to make a decision and they can give glyphosate for example seven more years or they say and this is according to our sources the most likely case they say to the member states as you have to convene one more time in brussels in order to get your job done because it's your responsibility responsibility we don't want to jump in now catherine you said that your member states just simply don't see eye to eye on this issue and they did germany especially somehow doesn't want to take

a stance here what exactly is pullens interest in this quite controversial herbicides then. well we know that the german chemical giant buyer is supposed to take over months son to buy the and of this year and driver side is monsanto's best seller and buyer is a key player for germany as industry location and this is why there is a vital business interest also for the german government to act in favor of this planned merger now just briefly catherine can we expect any reaction from monsanto on this at all. well i'm on sunday of course has the option on a legal basis to fight. in any case in any decision in front of the european court against the decision and so months can have a read reaction of course this is not the time to discuss this given that there is

no decision yet all right catherine martin's there from an undecided brussels thank you so much for that. all right football now or the second round of the german cup and rita and that's right when you believe it there were no upsets on tuesday night as all six top five teams won big games in magdeburg dortmund cruised to victory thanks to a good from gonzalo castro in the forty first minute the midfielder with a hard volley from close range after alexander knocked the boil down to his feet and two minutes after the restart he got a one off his own daughter went on to score three more on their way to a five nil success. you're watching the news has a recap of the top story that we're following for you kenya is on edge ahead of a presidential vote. that the election board says will proceed on cuz they piss off

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